Your prices aren't based on free-market costs of providing fiber hookup to small towns in Iowa.
You are only getting it cheap because the Government either pays for you with my taxes (part of military infrastructure, rural development, or something similar), or forces the ISP to subsidize you with my monthly fees (like they did for rural phone lines)
Why? You could get a microprocessor with a built-in ADC for like $1 from Mouser. If you want to be lazy: three PICs and three DACs, one per each of the three split channels. If you don't want to be lazy, you could actually get a single PIC to handle all three DACs.
Or even a single DAC with a PIC and a lot of analog voodoo magic (something like using PIC-controlled MOSFETs to switch a DAC between 3 different channels, then using capacitors and Op-Amps to provide a smooth output).
I think you misunderstood what I meant by interleaving:
The split channels could time-share a single sound card output.
Say, if you wanted to split a single 48 kHz output into three channels, you would have, from the start:
first output: sample the common channel for 20.8 microsecond, then wait for 41.7 microseconds, repeat second out: wait for 20.8 us, sample for 20.8 us, wait for 20.8 us, repeat third: wait for 41.7 us, sample for 20.8 us, repeat.
Now, since each of these would only sample the soundcard every 62.5 microseconds, that makes their sampling rate to be 16 kHz. Given real-life hardware limitations you'd have to leave some white space between these, of course, and devise a way to synch up the clocks properly, but the general idea is valid I think.
Other commenters explained how 5+1 works to give you 6 channels, but I just thought I'd point out that you could in theory use multiplexing to get the same thing done with a normal stereo audiocard as well.
For example, a card that can output two channels (L+R) at 48 kHz each could be used to output 4 channels at 24 kHz each or 8 channels at 12 kHz, etc, with just a little added output circuitry and a software program to interleave your sound files.
I guess it really depends on what skills they are looking for: ability to honor deadlines or ability to come up with outstanding projects. If it's the latter then there is no reason to penalize procrastinators.
Also, I don't really see how that's unfair to people who finished earlier: they got an extra week to expand their proposal just like everybody else.
This needs to beep at random intervals (say between 30 and 300 seconds) or else it will be very easy to time the signal and use it to locate the circuit.
It would also help to increase the frequency to 6000 Hz or so, which will also make it harder for humans to locate the direction of sound.
Finally, tape a 100 dollar bill to the bug for when the person finally finds it... they are probably going to be mad as hell and this will give you an easy way out.
We've lost how many lives in Iraq? 4000 American troops dead
We've killed how many innocents (an inevitable consequence of war, which is one of the reasons why war needs to be considered a last resort, something you fuckers have serious problems understanding)? About 100k to 200k by indirect estimates. Which is much less than the 1,000,000 Iraqi lives lost under Clinton. Look it up, asshole: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions (ref 5 and 6 in particular)
And we're losing how many trillions of dollars on this at a time when the economy is on the brink of complete collapse? Less than 0.3 trillion. Which is a small price to pay for liberating an entire nation (and securing our future hydrocarbon supply).
Submit your resume to several recruiters/headhunters. They are pretty good at finding last-minute temp jobs like that, as long as you list all the buzzwords you are competent with for recruiter to grep (but don't lie).
Also, if you have time, submit your resume to large local companies for a position; put your availability data and general job scope interest, so even if that position is closed, they will keep them on file. Make sure your resume isn't completely unsolicited however since they just trash random submissions.
They probably deal with it the traditional Socialist way: if you post objectionable material from within China, someone will drop a dime on you. Then the thought police shows up at your door with a rubber hose, a car battery, and a pair of handcuffs.
The tests went ahead anyway and we're all still here Tests didn't go ahead "anyway" as you present it. This possibility was seriously considered, and the tests only proceeded after Teller and Besse showed that nitrogen would not actually fuse.
Not to the Chinese they aren't. Remember, it's a country where slave labor and forced abortions are the norm (and the sad part is, I am not actually trolling here!)
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Your prices aren't based on free-market costs of providing fiber hookup to small towns in Iowa.
You are only getting it cheap because the Government either pays for you with my taxes (part of military infrastructure, rural development, or something similar), or forces the ISP to subsidize you with my monthly fees (like they did for rural phone lines)
Perhaps this LHC business is exactly why we have never encountered alien civilizations?
By the time any of them evolve enough to develop space travel, some smartass comes up with a bright idea of building a giant particle accelerator...
Because Hawking was never wrong, right?
Why? You could get a microprocessor with a built-in ADC for like $1 from Mouser. If you want to be lazy: three PICs and three DACs, one per each of the three split channels. If you don't want to be lazy, you could actually get a single PIC to handle all three DACs.
Or even a single DAC with a PIC and a lot of analog voodoo magic (something like using PIC-controlled MOSFETs to switch a DAC between 3 different channels, then using capacitors and Op-Amps to provide a smooth output).
I think you misunderstood what I meant by interleaving:
The split channels could time-share a single sound card output.
Say, if you wanted to split a single 48 kHz output into three channels, you would have, from the start:
first output: sample the common channel for 20.8 microsecond, then wait for 41.7 microseconds, repeat
second out: wait for 20.8 us, sample for 20.8 us, wait for 20.8 us, repeat
third: wait for 41.7 us, sample for 20.8 us, repeat.
Now, since each of these would only sample the soundcard every 62.5 microseconds, that makes their sampling rate to be 16 kHz. Given real-life hardware limitations you'd have to leave some white space between these, of course, and devise a way to synch up the clocks properly, but the general idea is valid I think.
Other commenters explained how 5+1 works to give you 6 channels, but I just thought I'd point out that you could in theory use multiplexing to get the same thing done with a normal stereo audiocard as well.
For example, a card that can output two channels (L+R) at 48 kHz each could be used to output 4 channels at 24 kHz each or 8 channels at 12 kHz, etc, with just a little added output circuitry and a software program to interleave your sound files.
I guess it really depends on what skills they are looking for: ability to honor deadlines or ability to come up with outstanding projects. If it's the latter then there is no reason to penalize procrastinators.
Also, I don't really see how that's unfair to people who finished earlier: they got an extra week to expand their proposal just like everybody else.
Looks like some kind of a OTP-enccrypted paedophile exchange to me. Time to subpoena Slashdot!
Yeah, or maybe their teachers and parents put more effort into educating them because these girls "looked smart."
This needs to beep at random intervals (say between 30 and 300 seconds) or else it will be very easy to time the signal and use it to locate the circuit.
It would also help to increase the frequency to 6000 Hz or so, which will also make it harder for humans to locate the direction of sound.
Finally, tape a 100 dollar bill to the bug for when the person finally finds it... they are probably going to be mad as hell and this will give you an easy way out.
Februrary has 29 days in 2008.
How about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Was the sale of those punchcard machines evil?
Is her name Eliza by any chance?
I agree she's amazing http://nlp-addiction.com/eliza/
Submit your resume to several recruiters/headhunters. They are pretty good at finding last-minute temp jobs like that, as long as you list all the buzzwords you are competent with for recruiter to grep (but don't lie).
Also, if you have time, submit your resume to large local companies for a position; put your availability data and general job scope interest, so even if that position is closed, they will keep them on file. Make sure your resume isn't completely unsolicited however since they just trash random submissions.
They probably deal with it the traditional Socialist way: if you post objectionable material from within China, someone will drop a dime on you. Then the thought police shows up at your door with a rubber hose, a car battery, and a pair of handcuffs.
How many scientists actually believe in Hawking Radiation? Has it been ever observed? Has this hypothesis been verified experimentally in any way?
Is Hawking Radiation anything beyond a neat mathematical conjecture based on a demonstrably flawed theory of quantum mechanics? Not like Hawking hasn't admitted to being wrong before, you know...
Are you talking about the web production team or about Matt and Trey?
Once you have fully autonomous robots, would you still need to go to Mars personally? Sightseeing?
Not to the Chinese they aren't. Remember, it's a country where slave labor and forced abortions are the norm (and the sad part is, I am not actually trolling here!)
You remember that student loan or that high paying job you didn't get perhaps because your file was flagged? That part.
What about "illegal" don't you understand?
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